Chance to snap up Victorian photos

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A rare collection of images taken by one of Victorian England’s most
pioneering female photographers is to go on sale.

Lady Clementina Hawarden, an award-winning photographer who was commended by
the Photographic Society, took hundreds of iconic portraits during her
lifetime, most of which are in the V&A collection. But an album
featuring 37 of her prints — many of them of her teenage daughters — and a
pair of pencil sketches, will be auctioned next month.

The photographs were mostly taken in the family’s South Kensington home, where
she turned the entire first floor into a studio filled with gossamer
curtains